Dragoons - I don't see too many of them in the high end content

[Versiroth]

It's not the cut and dry 'melees are bad' narrative that gets perpetuated in this game.

That wouldn't even be a thing if not for so many melee characters being bad. I've had groups were the Dragoon/Monk didn't really get hit at all and I've had groups were the Dragoon/Monk had to be raised a couple times during the fight due to being hit by swipes. Was it the tanks fault? Who knows, but the point is, in my experience, I run into more melee's like the latter than the former. Which is apparently most people's experience as that's how these sorts of stigmas start in the first place.

You can talk down to me all you want, but the fact is, there wouldn't be such a stigma if there wasn't truth to it.

[PArcher]

Was it the tanks fault? Who knows,

This makes a world of difference. If the tank is constantly turning enemies so that melee have a harder time or turn AoEs/Cleaves into melee...guess what? Its the tank's fault...just because you're not paying attention and can't tell what is going on doesn't mean everything is always the melee's fault

[Warrlordd]

BTW melee on Titan is the 'EASY' way to do it.

I'm surprised there aren't any 'melee only' Titans. Or maybe that's because of an unfair stigma towards melee being less valuable/more dangerous.

Melee (DRG in particular have high value in T5, T4, and T1 especially) there ought not to be a stigma that they are bad but that feeling goes beyond FFXIV, really.